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How did he get to Malaysia?
a) By bus
b) By car
c) By train Where did he go first?
a) Malacca
b) Kuala Lumpar
c) Singapore What do the Cameron Highlands have lots of?
a) Shopping Malls
b) Resorts
c) Trails Who did something foolish?
a) Phil
b) Sara
c) Todd Why is Jim Thompson famous?
a) He founded Cameron Highlands
b) He disappeared there
c) The made the trails

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AUDIOSo, you were saying you went to Laos, you
went to Thailand, by any chance did you go to Malaysia?
Yeah, I spent, I spent some time in Malaysia. The first stop, we went there
from Singapore,
just taking a bus and we ended up in Malacca. Stayed about five days in
Malacca. Malacca's
nice. There's a lot of history there. We learned a lot about the colinization
of Malacca,
the Portuguese and then the Dutch, and then the English and then the Japanese,
and, yeah, it was a
really interesting place. There was old St. Peter's Church. There's several
Mosques. It's
a good place to spend for a few days. From there we went to Kuala Lumpar.
We didn't really
spend much time in Kuala Lumpar. We had spent a week in Singapore and were
pretty tired of cities.
so we only spent I believe two or three days in Kuala Lumpar, just visits
from shopping malls,
the KLCC, the Petronis Towers, and yeah, that's basically what we did in
KL, and then we went to the
Cameron Highlands, and if you like hiking, the Cameron Highlands is a great
place for you. I
don't know, they might have 16, 17 different marked trails. There's a whole
lot of unmarked trails.
We spent a month there. I think I only went on only six hikes maybe during
that month but once again we were
being lazy, and yeah, if you're an avid hiker then you're certainly going
to enjoy the Cameron Highlands.Yeah, actually, I did the hike
in the Cameron Highland once, and foolishly I started my hike at
about 4 o'clock and I thought I could make the loop of the trail at the
time, and the sun started
to go down, and I was in the jungle, (Yeah) and I was worried about getting
back, and I just made it back,
but I was pretty scared for awhile.
You were lucky. (Yeah) Some people don't make it back.
(Really?). Well, Jim Thompson.(Yeah).
Maybe you've heard of himYeah, actually, why don't you tell
the people about Jim Thompson?
Uh, Jim Thompson was a trader. I think he was maybe based in Hong Kong,
but I'm not sure. Maybe
it was based in Malaysia. He went hiking. I believe it was 1967, in the
Cameron Highlands, and
no one has seen him since. He's just vanished from the face of the earth.
So, be careful if you
go hiking there. Watch your step.